... I have attended, there has been prayer and a devotional and fellowship. That counts as worship plus one. What about feeding the least of these one Friday a month at the Salvation Army shelter? ... and rural congregation. But before we can share this good news with others, we have to know what worship plus one means. We have to know how devote ourselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to ...

"If individuals in the congregation are expected to be 'actors in the worship drama,' as Kierkegaard so aptly put it, they must know in advance what the roles demand.  Further, the Christian church expresses its historicity, its continuity, and consequently its authority, partly by repeating the same actions and words from one generation to another. "At the [...]

I'd guess nearly all American churches - mainline, orthodox, charismatic, evangelical… whatever - do worship as a group of professionals (paid or volunteer) leading a group of spectators, possibly with occasional guided crowd participation. The kicker is, that's not how Christians are supposed to worship. New Testament worship was done is small cell groups (averaging around 35 [...]

Sometimes in worship, execution goes perfectly. That is to say that everything in service progresses exactly as you intended it to, and yet the elements of service just don't seem to be flowing smoothly, and the week just seems to have hit the mark. When this is the case you have to step back and [...]

... 241-48). Also, I was required to take a course called "The Ministry of Worship".It was in this class that I first began to seriously question the belief and practice ... simply and very clearly, we are told that whenever we come together everything should be done for the purpose of edifying (building up) one another. We worship God together as we mutually encourage one another toward maturity in Christ ...

... celebration (rejoicing) must never lead to carnality (with trembling). We must always have at the core of our worship the fear of the Lord and a sobering reverence for Him. There is no substitution for ... ceremony, confessions and creeds have their place, but in and of themselves, they do not constitute true worship. Religious rites must never take precedence over our obedience to the Lord. Remember ...